Sometimes, patience combined with persistence pays off. Four years ago, a group of educational activists collaborated with local legislators on a public policy—SB 1192 that passed the Senate’s Seventy-second General Assembly in the state of Colorado on Thursday, April 11th. It is headed towards the final legislative processes to become law. More specifically, it mandates […] Read more

In just one week, it has been reported that the President told Border Patrol officers to violate the law, assured his appointed acting DHS Secretary that he would pardon him for breaking the law, and that he is serious about using taxpayer dollars to fund political retaliation against Democrats. All of this lawlessness occurred after […] Read more

A new report shows in the past decade, Arizona and other states have placed more foster children needing homes with relatives or other families. The Annie E. Casey Foundation research says between 2007 and 2017, Arizona child-welfare officials assigned fewer foster children to group homes and institutions. Beth Rosenberg, director of child welfare and juvenile […] Read more

With the chaos that his immigration policies have generated at the border, Donald Trump is trying to get the Democrats’ backs against the wall by accusing them of advocating for “open borders,” the abolition of ICE, and therefore supporting “illegality.” After all, for electoral reasons Trump is just trying to keep this base satisfied with […] Read more

Senator Elizabeth Warren is hell-bent on dismantling the systems that feed inequality in this country, including the Electoral College. “Every vote matters,” she said at a recent CNN town hall. That’s why we should “get rid of the Electoral College” and institute “national voting.” Americans don’t directly elect their president — states do. In most […] Read more

Like many New Mexicans, I live with felony convictions dating back decades. Slightly more than 20 years ago, an Albuquerque police officer arrested me for taking an end table off of my neighbor’s sun porch and charged me with residential burglary — a third degree felony. I pleaded guilty and the judge sentenced me to […] Read more

Tracey L. Rogers As I reflect on the controversies that plagued the Trump administration throughout 2018, the unforeseen political power plays that shocked our nation, and the party stalemates that unfolded like a suspense thriller between Democrats and Republicans, I must admit that I’m sitting on the edge of my seat waiting for the finale. […] Read more

Stephanie Presch Judge Reed O’Connor, a federal judge in Texas, struck down the entirety of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) as unconstitutional on December 14th. This lawsuit—brought by a group of Republican attorneys general and governors—argued that because the ACA’s individual mandate had been eliminated under the GOP’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act […] Read more

by Andrea Germanos Incoming Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took aim at the Democratic Party on December 31st, over the newly-announced climate crisis committee—a body she and other progressives say lacks the teeth needed to avert planetary disaster. In a Twitter thread, Ocasio-Cortez said that her proposal for a select committee on a Green New Deal—a […] Read more

Leslie Watson Malachi For years, Republicans in North Carolina have tried to roll back voter rights in the interest of “preventing fraud.” But now, one of their own — Republican Mark Harris in the state’s 9th congressional district — stands credibly accused of paying a consultant who may have stolen or altered absentee ballots […] Read more